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SummonerB2
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I was flagged for no reason. This needs to stop. It really gets on my nerves.
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Unfortunately, that is part of the price for a community input moderation system. People will actually provide input. Sometimes it is for a reason you are unaware of, sometimes it has little to do with your post. It happens to me occasionally as well: I know some posters are just flagging every post they see from a particular individual as some sort of protest against them personally, sometimes for peculiar philosophical nonsense (one person was flagging everything I was posting on the basis that no one should post as many posts as I did, period). It happens.
The only comfort I can provide is that flagging a post is not just some anonymous downvote on the forums: flagging notifies the mods that the person is highlighting the post for moderation. And that means abuse of the flagging system directly impacts the mods. Flagging for inappropriate reasons or no reason is itself a violation of the forum rules and repeated use of the system for that purpose will eventually lead to repercussions for that poster. It doesn't really hurt you to be randomly flagged by one or two people, but if they continue to do it they can have their posting privileges eventually suspended. They are shooting themselves in the foot to do it.
In the meantime, I would try to ignore it best you can. I review every time I'm flagged to see if I actually posted something questionable. When it turns out not to be, I write it off and carry on. It is the internet after all, and a thick skin is mandatory.
I agree. I'm also pretty self-aware, so when I teeter on the border, I know it warrants it. The rest I just let go. I read mine occasionally and its just a chuckle. Some people make everything personal, and if they see a shiny opportunity to exert their personal feelings, they will. Lol.
Get over it guys, someone had an unfavorable opinion about your post be glad they even bothered to read it. Only you look at your profile, no one but you cares about your points.
I see a lot of randomly flagged posts too, in theory it's a good thing to have but from what I've seen @GroundedWisdom there's no reason why you should have so many in particular. Sure you post a lot but it's never been offensive or anything. So far I'm only on 1 personally, maybe I'm just lucky haha. Maybe a disagree button could help but that will probably just make it worse. 2 things to use if that existed too. Either way it's not as if the 'points' mean anything, probably best to just ignore it and move on.
The flagging system is NOT for posts that you disagree with. It's only for when you see a post that is legitimately spam, or abusive. Please do not use it for anything else.
I have read the rules a couple times and keep missing where it speaks on the flagging system, can you help us by pointing it out? Because right now we're told to report based on feelings.
"If you see a post that you feel violates our forum rules, please use our report feature instead of sending a moderator a private message. The reporting function of these forums is much more functional, and your use of this will help to ensure we can keep our forums clean!"
There is this:
Its ... weirdly ineloquent because the relevant passage appears to have been accidentally copy/pasted into the wrong paragraph. But rule 10 says to only report a post if it actually breaks a rule. That in combination with the directive to use the reporting feature rather than private messages appears to state that posters should use the Flag button to report spam and abuse only when the post being reported is actually spam or abusive. If you fail to follow those two rules, then:
I suppose they could explicitly state that the "reporting feature" is the flag button, but are there really that many posters that do not realize that the Flag button is the reporting feature of the forums?
A legendary spammer who used to cause the Flagpocalypse, he might be back, I saw a thread with huge amount of flags for no reason
Can we get a 'dislike' button?
The suggestion has come up before and I don't have any issues with it. I just don't see it as a solution to that issue. It's like saying people will abuse the Flag until they get what they want. Just my opinion.
So we should only use it as a means of doing your job for you? Got it.
Hilarious that the #1 dribble flagger has something to say about this
Probably not. I know there are people who believe that a dislike or disagree button is no different than a like or agree button, but there is a difference between them. In general, the mods (I'm assuming, because this is true for lots of similar forums) do not want people simply posting "I agree" or "I disagree" to posts. Neither is especially constructive. They would rather people say explicitly why they agree or disagree with a post. But the catch is that it is often the case that when someone agrees with something, there is nothing else to say: they agree explicitly because they would say the same thing, and nothing more. It is possible to agree in a way that cannot be elaborated upon without simply repeating what someone said.
That's not true for disagreement. By definition, if you disagree, it is because you would in fact say something different. And while there is only one way to agree, there are an unlimited number of ways to disagree. No two people necessarily disagree with the same thing in the same way. The Agree button allows people to express agreement when it is impossible or too difficult to contribute additional information. But it is never impossible to express why you disagree. If you want to disagree, the mods want you to disagree in a constructive way. They don't want people disagreeing just for the sake of disagreeing with no additional constructive expression, and don't want to give people the option of lodging anonymous and unspecified disagreement with other posters.
It is also probably true that in general the forum mods want to promote positivity. And that's generally not tipping the scales much, because negativity has lots of promoters to counterbalance that.
I myself find myself looking for a 'downvote' like on Reddit sometimes.
Also you might find someone downvoting a comment might reduce the number of negative replies.
When someone invests their energy into targeting one specific individual in an abusive way, that usually warrants a Flag. Thanks for the example.
Upvoting and downvoting work together on Reddit to serve a specific purpose, or set of them. One such purpose is that there is a presumption that there is more stuff going on in Reddit than anyone could possibly read. Voting implies positive significance: posts and threads with the most upvotes go higher and the most downvotes go lower as a form of content sorting. Downvoting doesn't just imply disagreement: it implies fewer people should even read your post at all, which is not the same thing.
The system is more complicated than just up and down voting: there are points systems and there is the culture of Reddit and its individual subreddits themselves that work in concert to make the system work, to the extent that it does work. It isn't trivial to adopt elements of the system piecemeal, and it doesn't always work on every forum I've seen it attempted on.
Yeah. This place sometimes feels like a reverse Six Flag Amusement Park. The more flags do NOT equal to more fun...
Six flags is fun? It's hot, expensive, and lots of long lines.
So it's like Lindsay Lohan?
My point is, there's 4 positive buttons with slightly different functions and 'Lol' which could be taken either way, and one that is there for flagging for abuse/spam.
There's no options to disagree with the post aside from quoting.
And the problem with quoting is that it often starts rant wars because there are members in this forum. That just like to argue.
Having disagree button can be a quick response to someone's rediculous comment without starting a retaliation war from people who live in this forum to troll.
That's not a solution, though. Trolls exist. They will troll the Dislike Button the same way. That's the whole point. Having negative reactions invites more negativity. People don't need to negatively impact someone's Posts or their Profile if they disagree. They can have a healthy debate and state why they disagree, or they can skip over the comment. Whenever people have the power to negatively impact others, it will inevitably be abused. Disagreeing is fine. Debating is welcomed. It shouldn't be an opportunity for others to affect someone's comments or Profile. That's just inviting problems itself.
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